Taken during my trip to Chennai, India for a friend’s wedding, this is how they eat in that magical country: tiny little round bowls, placed on an even-bigger round plate! Everyone gets one set each, so imagine the amount of dishwashing needed! And so, how does one eat Thali-style? 1. Remove little bowls, put them [...]
Archive for April, 2011
28 Apr
Weekly Photo Challenge: One
My sis, the ultimate evader of self-photos, might just kill me for posting this photo. So if you guys don’t hear from me in a while, please send the Search & Rescue Team One sister. One great beach. One beautiful sky. One amazing family holiday.
27 Apr
Weekly Photo Challenge: Lines
My first Weekly Photo Challenge! It is a late one (was meant for last week… see NYR #2), but ah heck.. I’ve already searched through my limited picture archive, so might as well go with it. Both pictures were taken during my trips to Seoul, South Korea. The first one was taken in the uber-posh [...]
26 Apr
To Sarkini, and Thousand Others Like You
Dear Sarkini, First, in the spirit of honesty.. I’m sorry for not remembering your name! Other possibilities run through my head (Sakirni? Sarkani?) as I type this up, but I hope you don’t take this personally… I am exceptionally bad at remembering people’s names. I do however remember that you were born sometime in January, [...]
2 Apr
How I Got My Name
Jumping straight to the conclusion, my name is a real example of the Indonesians’ love of abbreviations. Something, by the way, which I have recently learned in my to-date 1.5-years of living in Indonesia. Not a wealth of experience you might say, but it is all I have (if you discount the 7 years of [...]
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